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Definitely one of the greatest American authors. A little like Updike, but he can just put down the god damn thesaurus.
Pale Fire is probably one of my favourite books.
>>8201059
Ekovian.
What would you do if you had the Ring of Gyges? Be honest.
sneak into movies all day
I wouldn't know what it does because I already feel like I'm invisible all the time!!?!
:-(((((((((((((
>>8201053
Literally Hitler
Is the typography in this just a gimmick? In HoL it worked really well but in this it just feels unnecessary and pretentious.
>>8201032
what a hack
>>8201032
How is it?
>>8201032
>Everything is a gimmick
Who cares? Just read it. Or don't. It doesn't matter how it feels to you, that's you. The author made it that way, and so it is. Jesus Christ.
Why does it seem like there are no good comedy books nowadays? Are there any good ones that came out in the 2010s?
Tao Lin pre-Taipei is pretty funny.
Eeee Eeee Eeee or Bed are hilarious
>>8200958
>comedy
>after 1PC4
Shitlord.
Are there even any good books in general, since 2010?
Mildly entertaining beach read.
>>8200930
I was actually planning on reading it unironically, but apparantly it focuses more on his life and not really on his business decisions. Is this true?
>>8200933
It's about his daily life and some of his best deals.
/iraq/ here, just wanted to drop by and say hi.
Have you guys read any books by Iraqis? Currently reading pic related. I recommend it strongly, it's a very dark and grim short story book.
>/iraq/
There is no Iraq board, what the fuck are you on about?
>>8200914
>he trusted an Islam
what is some essential /travel/core? Accounts of people travelling to exotic places.
happy birthday
bumping own thread
Ibn Fadlan and The Land of Darkness:
It's a collection of texts written by Arab travellers who went north. Most of the texts are about the steppe nomads (Bulghars, Khazars, Pecenegs, the Rūs, etc.) in the Ukraine/Black Sea area. A small amount of texts are about Western Europe (the land of the Franks). Ibn Fadlan is also known for writing down the only account of a Viking burial. What is remarkable about his writing is that it's not politically coloured, it's amazingly open minded for it's time.
>>8200852
thank you anon!!!
Obligatory "I just finished Moby Dick thread."
I thought it was amazing. I really appreciated the extensive build-up to the finale. What are some other books like this?
I've heard that Blood Meridian has some similarities including its style of prose and I plan on reading it soon.
there's nothing like moby dick. it's a truly original work.
>>8200851
This. You've read the book, OP, there's nothing else.
>>8200836
dropped by 30-th page, the most boring book i've ever attempted to read. That's why i hate those promoting their shotty classical books and people hating on stephen king and a song of ice and fire
Should I read Levinas? Where should I start? Which philosophers should I know about before reading into him?
Discuss.
>>8200740
Heidegger, general theology, broad existentialism, Buber... especially Buber.
>>8200740
Yes, he's enlightening. It's a good thing to have a clue on Heidegger, phenomenology and all of that, but it isn't necessary at all cost. You may read him without all of this.
>>8200740
Ethics is the first philosophy.
Ethics comes before metaphysics or ontology. This is the revolutionary and perhaps difficult idea of Levinas' philosophy but it's literally wonderful.
Most underrated philosopher of the 20th century.
What does lovers in triangle not on square mean?
really makes you think
>>8200659
Threesomes > Foursomes
>>8200659
It means you are a square if you don't have anyone on the side
critique my prose /lit/. i wrote about a stupid topic to make it not a shitty diary thread
It's hard to explain if you haven't experienced it. something about spamming dog faces to thousands of people amuses me endlessly. there are thousands of people in an online chat room, reading what people are saying, and i have the power to force them to look at dog faces. jesus. this is the the state of the world and i love it. i can sit in a room and force thousands of people to look at a stupid fucking dog face. and the best part is, when i start making people look at dog faces, other people start making people look at dog faces. it's not the attention that the dog faces recieve that i care about, it's not the power to make people post or look at dog faces that i care about, it's the fact that this is the world that i live in and it's so comforting to know that in a world where terrible things occur and people are slaughtered and beaten and raped and destroyed on a level that can't be seen that i can spam stupid fucking dog faces to thousands of strangers.
thx senpai
>>8200642
I thought atheism + communism + gay culture = Foucault
Start spamming dog faces already idiot.
stop posting this faggot picture you queer
Does burden of proof apply to philosophy? Why or why not?
>>8200618
google is your friend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof
>>8200730
This doesn't really answer my question. I was more surprised by the fact that this board seems to be totally accepting of religion on a philosophical level, despite it being an unprovable negative.
>>8200750
why didn't you specify more on the first post OP?
stop being lazy and explain yourself better - then maybe someone will reply
>enjoy fantasy as a genre
>most fantasy that I try to read either bores me to death or annoys me with contrivances
>when I was a kid I was reading Redwall instead of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings like the other kids around me
>The last fantasy series that I actually enjoyed was A Song of Ice and Fire.
Call me a shitter with the most plebian of taste. But I'm trying to find some more fantasy that I can tolerate.
If the magic in a particular fantasy book is too obvious and unsubtle, I lose my patience with it. If the political intrigue is too broad and grandiose, I start to struggle caring about anyone.
Why is it so hard to find good fantasy? A friend tipped me off to try out a particular book but the main protagonist had a sword that sang when enemies got close and he was accompanied by a halfling, an elf, and a dwarf. I had to put the book down after three chapters it was so fucking bland and cliche.
Yes I know A Song of Ice and Fire it's pretty much the popcorn summer blockbuster equivalent for literature, but I appreciate the armor and weapon porn that was in it and how it was moderately grounded. Is there any other fantasy series out on the market that keeps things low but is able to tell them in an interesting way? I think that's why I preferred redwall over Harry Potter when I was a kid. Yes Redwall had talking animals in it but there was no real magic or any supernatural bullshit; I couldn't get into Harry Potter because of that stuff despite it being insanely popular around that time.
Recommend me some gud fantasy /lit/
you're a shitter with plebeian taste, and also, go fuck yourself frogposter
>>8200615
If you have trouble sticking with fantasy novels then maybe short stories are more to your taste. Robert Howard's Conan and Solomon Kane stories come to mind. They are collected by Wordsworth and Penguin among others.
>>8200641
Hi there!
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Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bit to help you get used to the anonymous image-board culture!
commonality of prose?
So I see alot of y'all being all into foreign writers and stuff, notably hurakami and mishima for weebs (all respect due etc), maybe brecht and thomas mann and some french guys maybe.
I was wondering how many of you think you can really fully appreciate translated prose. I mean unless you've got a pretty strong understanding of the foreign culture and language wouldn't you lose alot of the intricacies of it all?
Think david foster wallace once said in that interview with the german tv station that he thought his own novels wouldn't translate well at all, etc. So I'm wondering how many of you, feel like you really really get it reading foreign writers or if you think that good literature is universal.
>>8200593
Most of why I read is for the writing, the prose, etc.. So if I can't find a translation of something that sounds phenomenal I just try to find something in my own language. It's kind of depressing desu.
>>8200593
>foreign culture
Not really, there's a huge amount of sharing between cultures in the modern world anyway. Subtleties might be lost but who cares if it's meaningful/enjoyable for you?
>foreign language
That's literally what the translation is for. Why on earth would you need a strong understanding if a language to read a -translation- of it?
>>8200619
>>8200613
well I mean especially in eastern languages, in Chinese (probably similar for Japanese and Korean as well)
They have a thing called Cheng Yu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengyu
there's an entire other level in the way they use language, not just as a simple idiom or a reference, but also has to do with the interplay of the pictographs and radicals that exist in the chinese characters, while the translator can probably find a similar english idiom, reading without the knowledge of the original language seems like you'd lose so much of that, unless the translator also includes like an entire section of dfw-ish footnotes. I'm wondering if there's examples of this kind of thing in other languages, especially Russian, German and French. Wonder if there's a native speaker that's read the English translation of any of the classics that can share their thoughts about this
So is it satire, or was that just a meme?
People who call it satire just do that to fit it to their modern sensibilities
>>8200590
Elaborate?
I've never seen a compelling piece of evidence to suggest it was in any way intended to be satyrical.
